No longer can manually add artwork.

I had the same problem the only less than ideal answer in my case was select a bunch of tracks, click Get Info then double-click in the artwork box, it gives you a file dialog and you can manually add a picture file from disk. In order to do that I have to have the artwork pics already on disk, which I have to have done by dragging from webpages like Amazon! So the dragging an image in a webpage to a file on the desktop works fine so it has to be iTune that's messed up.

This is a complete rubbish solution! I used to be able to select a bunch of tracks then simply drag any picture from a webpage or a disk file straight into iTune and have it stay there!

( OSX 10.6.8 / iTunes 10.5.2 (11) )

Fuzzypiggy wrote:

This is a complete rubbish solution! I used to be able to select a bunch of tracks then simply drag any picture from a webpage or a disk file straight into iTune and have it stay there!

( OSX 10.6.8 / iTunes 10.5.2 (11) )

Yes, that's how it should work. I and many others have tried what you suggest, and all the other ways you should be able to do it. Sometimes, unexplicably, the artwork just doesn't "stick." So the converting to WAV, then back to AIFF has worked for me, and I share it so that others may find it useful.

I had this problem with AIFF files too. Maybe art work is not supported in that format? Don't know...just asking. Also every once in awhile I have a problem adding art work to AAC files. I'll drag, or paste, art work on to the art work box and it will seem to disappear. This happens several times, but seems to happen if I am trying to add art work to the currently playing song. Once I select another song, the art work appears in the first song. Weird.

To put in artwork for multiple tracks, select all the tracks (select the first track, then select the last whilst holding down shift.)

Ctrl+i (get info)

Select the info tab.

Paste the copied artwork into the small window (bottom right) called artwork.

This usually works- although as you all say, sometimes itunes won't let you put any artwork in.

brassandzin - Please, please I hope you didn't misunderstand me, I wasn't calling your solution rubbish, I was calling my own convoluted solution that I had to come up with rubbish. I am just annoyed that something the developers have done on the platform, has broken something so fundamental and useful as simply dragging and dropping an image as it used.

Apologies if my phrasing was misconstrued.

I'm currenly using itunes version 10.5.2.11 and there is no artwork tab when editing a single file song or video.
assuming apple must've left out the tab, there's no other way to add or remove a single song or video's artwork except through my method, adding a copy of the song or video and edit both file at the same time. Doing so will allow you to enter the multiple editing system and can add or remove the artwork without pressing from the tab. Afterwards you can delete the copy and you should have your single with or without an album cover.

I've always been able to manually add artwork to my iTunes files. This is particularly useful to me since I'm a musician and importing original composition WAV files into iTunes. However, recently I've had a problem attaching artwork. Here's what I've found as a solution (work around);

• My WAV files with 1411 kbps Bit Rate cannot have artwork attached.
• Burn files to CD
• Import the CD files back into iTunes
• The new files will be at 256 kbps (VBR) Apple Lossless Format
• Attached artwork to individual files or by selecting all the files for a given album

This should take care of the issue.

Good Luck

Like others posting here, I upgraded iTunes and found that album artwork was missing.

Selecting all the tracks of the album and using Get Info does let me get to a screen that shows an artwork box and it does allow me to paste an image into it, but then after I've clicked OK nothing has changed in the iTunes window. Still no artwork.

I did figure out one thing that may help others having this problem. Right click on the generic album icon (one that is missing the artwork) and check ON the last item in the pull down list, Always Show Artwork. After I did this some or all of the artwork (can't tell for sure which it is) that I missing is now showing.

But I still cannot add artwork manually to those missing artwork. It keeps letting me paste it in the Get Info box but then doesn't "stick".

It seems my .m4a files can keep artwork, while .WAV can't? Has anyone else found the same?

To check the file type, Select a song track and Get Info > Summary tab.

I'm on a PC, Win 7.

Either the files have corrupt metadata (the internal file data describing the title, album, etc) or WAV just isn't support applying artwork?

But before you go permanently converting to another file format just for the artwork (WAV vs AAC vs Apple Lossless), I found this posting:

from:

kornchild2002

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Apple lossless can be safely used. Look up the term lossless, lossless means that no audio quality is lost. An Apple lossless file is a bit-for-bit identical file of the original CD yet it takes up less space (up to twice as less space) and it can handle ID tag information while WAV cannot. However, you should not

really use lossless or WAV for portable listening. It eats away at the battery and you can't store as many files. The reason is that WAV and Apple lossless take up more space and require more processing power. Hence you will not get the full 40 hours of audio playback time. You will get much less when using WAV (probably around 20) and about 25-30 hours with using Apple lossless.

You should always use a lossy format like mp3 or AAC for portable listening. Portable listening conditions just aren't good enough for you to hear the difference between a lossy and lossless file.

Outside noise has a lot to do with it and there are many other factors. For portable listening, I suggest using a maximum audio bitrate of around 256kbps but 160kbps-192kbps would probably be more than sufficient. Your headphones have a lot to do with it as well. You also need a portable headphone amp in order to start taking advantage of 320kbps+ audio.

Stick with a lossy audio format at 256kbps or below. I suggest downloading a program called foobar2000 and that you conduct a blind ABX test between a lossy 192kbps AAC/mp3 file and a WAV file using your headphones. Chances are high that you won't hear a credible difference between the two."

Ok, this works for now:

To see Cover Flow artwork and keep large WAV, AIFF or Apple Lossless files, create an .mp3 COPY of just one song. MP3 is the smallest file size that can hold artwork. Don't convert EVERYTHING to MP3, that will compress your files permanently (unless that's what you want)! Just make an MP3 copy of 1 song, then uncheck it so it doesn't play twice everytime the album plays.

1) Change Import Settings. Edit > Prefereneces > Import Settings. Import Using > MP3.

2) Create an MP3 copy of 1 track. Select the first track in an album, and do Advanced > Create MP3 version.

3) Apply Artwork. Drag or copy your artwork to the MP3 version.

4) In your Library, Uncheck the MP3 version so it doesn't play every time you play the album.

5) I also added "COVERART" to that first track's title for filekeeping. If you delete that MP3, you delete the art.

Remember to change back your import settings if you don't normally do MP3s.

Using ITunes 10.5.3 (3). Scan cover, drop onto desktop. Open Itunes select one track, go to "file" select "info" select "Artwork". Select "Add", select the scaned IMG and than select "Open". Image appears, select "OK"

If you have no physical Artwork avaiable try the internet and take a image, shift,option and f4, of the one you need. Works for me. Good Luck

So what we're seeing here is a lot of workarounds!

For anyone having trouble with this try those listed and see which one works for you.

For Apple people reading this... PLEASE FIX THIS!!

Maybe I'm just old, but I'm starting to feel like the Dyson vacuum guy... "I just want things to work properly."

I'm using iTunes 10.5.3. I actually purchased the app called "TuneUp" recently to simplify my life. My library had over four hundred albums where the artwork was missing and the iTunes function "get album artwork" didn't work. TuneUp fixed all but 25 of my album artwork problems with high-quality artwork. I also added the content of a handful of cd's to my library and neither TuneUp, nor the more manual cut/paste, drag and drop method of adding artwork functioned. After reading through this discussion thread I deleted the .wav files I had just added from the CDs, changed my import settings (under preferences) to use AIFF Encoder and it fixed the problem - TuneUp and manual method worked to add artwork.

There seems to be a lot of artwork issues out there.

see this other thread also ...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3493247?start=0&tstart=0

... and thanks for that work-around regarding WAV music files, the few I keep in that format I have never been able to add art to - I don't know why -, that suggestion of using a kind of dummy mp3 copy of the first track to get art displayed is a trick I never thought of ... although it doesn't actually attach art to the WAV formatted tracks themselves.

I thought after reading the posts here that I might be in trouble adding artwork to an album of my son's band - happy days, no hassle at all, followed the steps on this site

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/adding-album-cover-art-or-images-in-itunes .html

and scored first time.

Secret might be having the image as a JPEG or GIF.